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5l2 TALKS ON tt AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER " very difficult to get over. That is the nationality of the personality, but this id^a of service you may call the nationality of the ego, or perhaps even of the Monad. He was born with th»-t streak in him and has been cultivated along that line. He has the desire to be of service. It gets stifled in our worldly lives and we sometimes forget it, but it crops up again. We are willing to work for others when we get the chance. Our Masters belong to that type. What is hard for you to understand I suppose is that there are other types which are just as good. The Solar Deity manifests Himself through three aspects, Will, Wisdom and Love. That is how they are given in this book. Others may seek to approach Him along the two former lines; bill we, broadly speaking, are trying to express the Love aspect, and therefore try to do all we can because that is the line of our Master, and if we wish to follow Him we must follow that line. There are other people whose one idea is devotion, to merge themselves in the Deity whom they worship. That seeihs to you a selfish thing. It is not really. There are others who desire •to reach the Wisdom of the Deity and to merge themselves in that, and their intense desire is to be as wise as He is. There is a point where all these run together. Later on you will find that the wisdom and the devotion lead men to see that they must serve the Master whose idea is service. They realise that they will do it better when they have acquired